After Liu Yijin walked out of the house of the guarding eunuch, he felt as if he was in another world.
Especially Mengyao's charming expression and graceful dancing posture in the gloomy Buddhist hall, Liu Yijin always felt that something was wrong.
But upon closer inspection, it turns out that this seems to be even more unusual.
"Sir, what's wrong with you?" As soon as he walked into the county governor's house, Sun Sangxiang and Lan Yu'er also walked out of the carriage.
Seeing that the two of them were carrying something in their hands and both were dressed plainly, Liu Yijin asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Burn incense and worship Buddha." Sun Sangxiang said excitedly: "Don't you know that today is a temple fair?"
"Temple fairs are not only held during the Chinese New Year. How can there be temple fairs now?"
Looking at Liu Yijin's confused look, Sun Sangxiang said: "You don't know something, sir? This temple fair is near Qingliang Temple. Miss Lan and I happened to have nothing to do today, so we went out for a walk together. What do you think we encountered?"
Seeing Sun Sangxiang's "Ask me now" expression, Liu Yijin smiled and said, "Then tell me, what did you see?"
"I saw a lot of Buddha statues, and they were almost all the same."
"Oh?" Liu Yijin said casually: "It's normal to have a Buddha statue near Qingliang Temple."
"No, no, I saw it at the temple fair. Apart from Guanyin and the Lord Buddha, those Buddha statues only have subduing dragons and subduing tigers. Or they are Vajra Bodhisattva, and nothing else."
"This is the first time I have seen such a strange temple fair. There are many things for sale, but this Buddha statue is different."
Lan Yu'er on the side nodded: "And what's strange is that the people from Yihongyuan also bought these Buddha statues. They specifically wanted the Vajra Bodhisattva and said they wanted to place it at the entrance of the store."
At this point, Lan Yuer looked at Liu Yijin suspiciously: "Why do you think a place like Yihongyuan buys Vajra Bodhisattva?"
Liu Yijin didn't take it to heart; "Maybe it's the custom here, after all, every place has its own characteristics." '
"It's not like that." Sun Sangxiang shook his head and said: "Vajra Bodhisattva is specialized in subduing demons and ghosts, while Jianglong and Fuhu are specialized in suppressing demons. In a place like Yihongyuan where men go, who would buy these things and put them there? .”
"That is, unless there are corpses buried under Yihongyuan."
Lan Yuer said with a smile as she walked inside.
Liu Yijin's steps faltered: "What did you say?"
Lan Yuer was stunned: "I didn't say anything."
"You just said there might be corpses under Yihongyuan?"
Lan Yu'er looked at Liu Yijin's excited look and frowned slightly: "I said it's possible. After all, people who buy this kind of Buddha statues are used to deter evil spirits. Of course, it's also possible that people like this kind of Buddha statues. maybe."
"Haha." Liu Yijin suddenly laughed: "My dear Yu'er, why didn't I think of that?"
The two women looked at Liu Yijin who looked like he was crazy, and couldn't help but look at each other suspiciously. Sun Sangxiang said worriedly: "Miss Lan, has Sir got some kind of madness? Why did he suddenly become like this?"
"It's not that he's crazy, but he should have found some clues."
Liu Yijin suddenly stopped in front of Lan Yu'er, and when the other party was unprepared, he hugged Lan Yu'er in his arms: "Lan Yu'er, you have helped me a lot. It made me feel happy." It’s a lot more comfortable.”
Seeing Liu Yijin walking out in a hurry, Sun Sangxiang said with a look of disgust on his face: "Although I don't know what he is doing, I saw that the person he was hugging was you."
Lan Yu'er's face turned red and she hurriedly explained: "Madam, I misunderstood. I think your Excellency should be overjoyed."
After Lan Yu'er finished speaking, she raised her feet and walked in. Sun Sangxiang behind her looked at Sun Sangxiang's thighs suspiciously: "They don't look the same at all. They haven't been opened at all. Could it be that Sir? Didn’t succeed?”
Lan Yuer, who was walking forward, suddenly stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
Liu Yijin hurried to the yamen gate, and Zhang Liang and Yu Jiang greeted him: "Sir."
"Have those people at Yihongyuan told me anything?"
"No, apart from saying some irrelevant things, there is no other useful information."
Liu Yijin said as he walked: "Where is the old bustard?"
"She just said some things about Xishang, but they were irrelevant questions."
"Oh? What did you say?"
Zhang Liang took the old madam's confession and Liu Yijin read it carefully, and his fingers gently landed on a sentence.
"Look at this sentence, is there anything wrong with it?"
The two of them came forward and looked at it for a few times. It just read a simple sentence: "Three years ago, Xishang began to believe in Buddhism, and then he bought various Buddha statues and magical instruments to hang in his room." '
Zhang Liang said with a puzzled look on his face: "This is no problem."
Liu Yijin shook his head and said: "According to the information I received, the house of the guard eunuch Liu Chang also has a Buddhist hall, and the three kinds of Buddha statues are enshrined in it. The key is that Liu Chang only started building the Buddhist hall three years ago. "
"Could this be a coincidence?"
Liu Yijin shook his head and said: "This is not a coincidence, but it is like an agreement. You mentioned so many Bodhisattvas, why did you choose three Bodhisattvas alone?"
"What do you mean, sir?"
"These three Bodhisattvas all suppress souls. Do you think Yihongyuan and the guarding eunuch are related to the case of missing children?"
Zhang Liang and Yu Jiang were shocked and looked at Liu Yijin in disbelief: "Sir, what should we do next?"
"Inform all the wolf guards to closely monitor everything in Yihongyuan, especially Xishang. They must monitor him all day long. I want to know his every move."
Liu Yijin walked into the cell, and the Madam and others had been tortured beyond human dignity.
"How about it, why don't you still explain it?"
The old madam trembled all over and said, "Sir, everything we know has been revealed. What else do you want us to say?"
Liu Yijin said: "I want to know why Xishang suddenly wanted to buy a Buddha statue three years ago?" '
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Xishang gently padded the angry-looking Bodhisattva with a piece of red cloth, knelt down devoutly, kowtowed three times, then turned and walked towards the backyard of Yihongyuan.
He stopped in front of a dense peach tree, took a deep breath, glanced around, then turned around and locked the front and rear doors.
He grabbed a shovel from behind the door and started digging hard with his head down.
After a while, a sack was exposed, accompanied by a foul smell.
A trace of fear flashed in Xishang's eyes. After hurriedly looking around, he turned and walked towards the back door. He opened the back door. After looking around, he walked directly to a carriage and quickly stuffed the sack into the back of the carriage. , quickly jumped on the carriage and walked straight out.
The carriage moved quickly, and after leaving the small town, it headed straight towards the woods on the side.
The sky gradually darkened, and Xi Shang's carriage stopped in a desolate place.
Xishang threw the sack from the car and walked deeper into the jungle.
The edge of the jungle is a cliff, and below the cliff is a bottomless ravine, and the faint sound of rushing water can be heard.
This made Xishang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Grandma, I've been on tenterhooks all day, and now I'm finally quiet."
Just when Xishang was about to throw the sack down, a cold voice laughed: "Xishang, what are you doing here?"
Xishang was shocked, and slowly turned his head to look around. He saw several people standing behind him at some point, and the leader was Liu Yijin.
"Brother Xishang, why did you dig out the sack in the courtyard for so long and then transport it so far to here?"
Xishang looked panicked and said: "Liu Yijin, you, why are you here?"
Liu Yijin walked forward with a smile: "If you can come to this place, I can come too."
"By the way, what's in this sack?"
"It's nothing, just some messy things. I thought it would be useless to keep them, so I just wanted to get rid of them."
"Really?" Liu Yijin suddenly laughed: "Could it be a corpse?"
